Alright, will try it - Thanks!!
But any suggestions on good but cheap Full HD ONVIF IP cameras?
A friend recommends “HIK 8mp CCTV Camera Updateable DS-2CD2085FWD-I IP Camera High Resoultion WDR POE Bullet CCTV Camera With SD Card Slot”
They seem to be low quality: 1-4MP? really? 
really… sounds a little condescending…unless I’m misreading that eye roll
I don’t know what the pixel specs are but I have no complaints about the quality. the video feeds are pretty clear and run at 1080p or 720p. Why would you need more for security cameras? It’s not like you need a 4k security camera that you can use to read the fine print on a label at 100 yards.
I could post screen shots but…no.
I apologize if it came off as condescending.
What I mean is, that I have experience with those “web cams” of 1-4 MP 10-15 years ago for Skype etc… so when I see a product listed as “FHD” with “4MP” right next to it - my first response is “WTF? lol…” Even our phones today have more, so this doesn’t sound like a good camera.
Am I wrong? Why?
accepted…
For the price they are pretty good cameras. they aren’t “webcams” in the commonly accepted form of the phrase.
here are some screen shots:
My diningroom:
Here is my outside camera using night vision. (I do have a deck light on causing the tree up front to be a little washed out):
Here’s one with the deck light off showing the night vision LED range. Interestingly, you can even see the night vision LEDs from the garage camera glowing and lighting up the inside of the garage from this camera, too:
This is the oldest foscam I own and it’s probably 5 years old and in 4:3 aspect ratio
Here is my really cluttered garage:
the most expensive of these cameras was only $70 I think.
They work really good as far as I’m concerned.
All of the screen shots are taken from Blue Iris.
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Thanks for sharing!
Interesting, this is pretty good quality, is that 4MP cameras doing that??
Could you please share the exact models for the dining room and back deck ones?
Foscams has wide range as well as prices are 55-230$ (CAD), and I am not sure which models would give this results… I don’t want to overpay for more than I require.
I’m running two outdoor Foscams and I’m pretty happy with them, although the resolution is only 1280 x 960.
I wanted them to be PTZ which made me end up at a higher price point.
@ReneTode built some pretty impressive controls for them and I’ve been thinking about using some of it but haven’t gotten around to it just yet:
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Their website is pretty bad, very hard to filter the products to find PTZ cameras.
Without knowing the exact model, the lowest 1080p priced is https://foscamcanada.com/Foscam-indoor-IP-camera/C2-White?sort=p.price&order=ASC
But it seems not to be ONVIF, or PTZ 
This is the closest I find to your resolution:
https://foscamcanada.com/Foscam-indoor-IP-camera/FI9816P-White?sort=p.price&order=ASC
But again, not ONVIF? And really, 1MP can do that quality in your pictures? it is very hard to believe, can you please confirm which model exactly you have?
I think I finally found the perfect one!
What do you guys think? Slightly more expensive than your Foscam I think, but ONVIF, true 1080p and is explicitly supported:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Amcrest
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I run a combination of Foscam and Amcrest (and 2 Fire Tablets) into Zoneminder (standalone Ubuntu server) and then linked to HA. I prefer the Amcrest. I’m up to 13 cameras if you don’t count the pi Zero’s that I just play with.
Here are the exterior ones; Looks like my front port got shifted a little:
On software there’s at least 3 decent/good options apart from Blue Iris:
- zoneminder
- Motioneye
- Shinobi
I’ve used zoneminder and once you pass the initial learning curve it’s pretty robust. Im now experimenting with Motioneye, and it’s good as well.
There’s even a Hass.io add on for Shinobi.
So if you dont want to have a separate server for Blue Iris, one of these options will definitely do the job.
the diningroom and garage camera’s are both FI9821P (~$50 on amazon right now). the deck camera is FI9900P (~$80 on amazon).
‘HD’ is often 1080x1920 resolution, this is 2073600 pixels or when divided by 1 million (mega) 2.0736 megapixels.
‘4K’ is often 3840 x 2160 resolution, this is 8294400 pixels or 8.2944 megapixels
Now that being said, there is a lot more to a cameras ability to resolve detail than the megapixel rating they provide for the sensor. I could go on for days on this but your best bet is to get some recommendations and look up sample images (not from the manufacturer)
You also need to pay attention to what video resolution these cameras can output and at what framerate. A 4K image may be worthless if it can’t provide a decent frame rate so you can actually see what is happening. A lower resolution is often fine for general use.
Finally, keep storage in mind. 4k at 30 FPS would be great, however, you are going to eat up a lot of storage with that kind of data coming out of your camera.
Finally, look into what your network can handle. Most wired connections should handle most cameras. However, wireless, especially when signal strength comes into play, may not allow 4K or even 1080P to be reliably pushed to a recorder if multiple cameras are present.
I had similar issues when trying to run just my four older cameras over WiFi. To solve I bought some tp link power line Ethernet adapters. No problems with connectivity anymore. The only camera connected wirelessly now is the deck camera.
Silvrr makes a very good point about what your network can handle. If you do go for wireless cameras you need to ensure your network is up to the task. Perhaps consider mesh wireless with backhaul (each wireless point connected to ethernet) in that case.
In my opinion, it’s hard to get great quality streaming video with wireless cameras. You might get decent resolution, but may have sacrifice on your frames-per-second rate. AND… you might saturate your wireless network, which could affect your WAF (wife approval factor).
I went with Reolink RLC-410 (hardwired power-over-ethernet) cameras all around and the quality is outstanding. And for $100 (Canadian), the quality is quite impressive. There is however, the additional cost of a POE switch (or POE injectors) and the hassle of running wires. In my opinion, the reliability and speed of the streaming makes it worth it.
that’s why i went with the power line adapters. i just use them for my cameras and then as long as you have a power outlet to supply your camera you don’t need to run any additional wiring.
About interfacing them with HAss, any camera with an RTSP interface will be OK.
Then you can get HAss to run for example ffmpeg to capture videos
I personally use motioneye for the long-term recording, also using RTSP to get the video from the camera.
I intend to lay out a Cat6 Giga lan network in the house, so bandwidth will not be an issue - but it is a fair point not to rely on wifi to avoid saturating it.
This is great find! Thanks, will do that for outdoors.
Sadly the Amcrest IP2M-841 does not have POE 
Any other recommendations with similar quality/price that would have POE?
Would be preferable to doing another power cable into the ceiling…
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I have managed to add a jooan a2r-u camera to HA
Once you have set up your camera with the app you can start to add to HA.
1: HTTP on to the camera and make sure this setting is selected and change the password
RTSP使能，摘要认证
2: In Devices & Services in HA you need to add a generic camera
In stream source url add
rtsp://admin:YourPW@camIP:554/live/ch00_1
Authentication = digest
And your good to go, note you wont have PTZ control
Hope this helps 